Poetry Drafts / 1 January 2021

Am I?

Am I beautiful?
Am I caged like your rabbits?
Am I stretching enough?

Am I beautiful?
Am I cuffed like your wh0res?
Am I bleeding enough?

Am I beautiful?
Am I incarcerated?
Am I alive?

Am I beautiful?
Am I still?
Am I?

About The Author

Hayden Veil

In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.